Chicago - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide
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A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in Chicagoland.
There's nothing quite like a visit to the "City of Big Shoulders," as the poet Carl Sanders once dubbed Chicago. And boy, was he right. Never has a city been so aptly described.
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"We had never been to Chicago before, and this handy guide turned out to be the perfect companion. We bought both the ebook and the printed one, in a 5x8 format, easy to stuff into my purse."
--Priscilla G., Waycross
Andrew Delaplaine
Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: andrewdelaplaine@mac.com He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details). His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.
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Chicago - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide - Andrew Delaplaine
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – WHY CHICAGO?
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Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT
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Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY
High on the Hog – Sensible Alternatives – On a Budget
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Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT
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Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE
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Chapter 6 – WHAT TO SEE & DO
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Chapter 7 – SHOPPING & SERVICES
chicago_mapChapter 1
WHY CHICAGO?
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What a wonderful town, Chicagoland.
I couldn’t believe the place when I first saw it. I was coming from New York (back in the ’70s) in fine weather in early summer. It was night. I took a cab into town and walked up the Magnificent Mile in awe. Ladies and gentlemen walked down the street arm-in-arm, actually promenading.
There was grass on Michigan Avenue. Real grass. I reached down and touched it. You wouldn’t find grass like that on Fifth Avenue. No, sir.
There was an electricity in the air in Chicago I noticed that very first night. And I’ve always been aware of it. There’s that same sense in New York, of course, a sensation of excitement, of swiftness, of opportunity—of hustle—but somehow it was different here in Chicago. The pace here has slightly less of an edge to it. The people are nicer. They are polite. They are not rude, crude or rough. Maybe the word I’m looking for is Normal. It’s that Midwest upbringing, I tell myself, and that must be it. This may be the City of Big Shoulders, but the people inhabiting it are as nice as the farmers plowing fields 300 miles away. (Well, there are certain neighborhoods....)
That first night I spent sleeping on the floor of our branch office at the corner of Oak and Rush, which I found out later was quite an exciting corner with a fascinating history. When I woke up in the morning and looked out of the floor-to-ceiling windows, I saw people swimming in the lake.
Swimming!
In the lake. In the 1970s!
I was aghast.
Back in New York, you wouldn’t dip your toe in the Hudson River or the East River.
That was then. This is now. Now they’re harvesting oysters from beds in the East River.
I remember running down and asking a cop how people could swim in the filthy water. He explained that the river flowing into the lake had been reversed. The river flowed backwards! The water was clean.
I couldn’t believe it.
But this was just the beginning of a long love affair with Chicago. There’s nothing not to like about this town—except the freezing wind that comes off the lake in the wintertime.
A couple of years later, in February, I was having a business lunch at the top of the Hancock Tower in what is now called the Signature Room. A blizzard blew snow off the lake so hard the snow moved horizontally, not vertically. Looking over the shoulder of the person opposite me, I saw the building swaying. I didn’t know if the Hancock Tower was swaying or the building I was looking at. I am not an engineer. I just knew this was no place for a Southern boy.
After lunch, my head bent down, I made my way back to my office and announced to the staff that the Editorial Department of our travel magazine (that would be me) was moving to our offices in Miami, at least for the winter months.
I’ve returned dozens of times, of course—even in February—and the simple truth is that whether it’s winter, summer, spring or fall, there’s no place like this Toddlin’ Town.
Before we get into the nitty-gritty, I’m reprinting Carl Sanders’s famous poem Chicago,
first published I think in 1914. It captures the city like no other verse ever written.
HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for
I have seen your painted